City Attorney Dennis Herrera said to the Department of Health and Human Services: 'It should be struck down in full.'
The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco skyline from the Marin Headlands above Sausalito, Calif. in 2015. By Ariana Eunjung Cha Ariana Eunjung Cha National reporter Email Bio Follow May 3 at 2:41 PM The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit alleging that a new federal rule is unconstitutional. The rule greatly expands the types of cases in which a health-care worker or entity can decline, on religious grounds, to participate in providing a service.
If San Francisco does not comply, the complaint states, it could lose $1 billion in federal funding that support critical services. Herrera said in the filing that the result has been that the OCR “has turned this legacy on its head."
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